Empowerment For Durable Wealth

-Luke 2:46

* Empowerment begins with hearing.
* prosperity is:
~what you know,it's no just availability of cash or physical acquisition.it is the s
~ the state of well being
~ not a game of luck rather it is of light
* You must have a working knowledge of prosperity in order to prosper
* Prayer does not solve poverty, you only come out of it through light

-Luke 4:18
-John 8:32
-Daniel 11:32
-Job 29:4
*prosperity has nothing to do with location, it is a function of secrets you have discovered
-psalm 25:14
* When you have heavenly insight, you have earthly victory
-Deuteronomy 29:29
*When you have revelation you gain revolution on earth
-Daniel 2:9
*Many Christians don't want financial knowledge rather they request for prayer.
*Jesus didn't pray for the poor , rather he preach to the poor.
-Hosea 4:6
*There is a key for everything, different keys for prosperity, healing, etc
* You need to search for financial knowledge in order to prosper.
*Knowledge is not a function of age
*Don't feel you know IT when you don't .
* You don't get rich when you have money, you only get rich when you get revelation
-Romans 11:33
-Jeremiah 29:13
-Proverbs 25:2
*Prosperity is a Function of revelation and Personal Discovery
-Luke 15:9


THINGS THAT GUARANTEE DURABLE WEALTH
1. SACRIFICE
~ a sacrifice is a precious seed laid on the alter of God for a desired turn around. It is a seed    that carries precious cost
-Psalm 50:5
* in life you don't wait for change, you make it happen.
-Psalm 126:4-6
*anytime you get to cross roads,  give God a sacrifice
* Anytime things get tough, give a sacrifice
* Sacrifice attracts God
*Curses are broken through sacrifices
 -Genesis 8:20-22
*Sacrifice opens doors
* Sacrifice is God's design for supernatural turnaround.

HOW TO KNOW A SACRIFICE
* it must be be very expensive and most cherished
-2Samuel 24:24
-John 3:16
*Things you cannot path with as humans
-Mathew 26:7
*Something you don't have any alternative to
-Genesis 22:2
*Something when given can move you to tears
Psalm 126:5-6
-Genesis 4:4

THINGS THAT PROVOKE SACRIFICE TO WORK
1.Love for God
-1kings 3:3
2. Apply kingdom principle
-Deuteronomy 28:1
3.Be regular
-Phillipians 4:16
4. Sensitivity to timing
-1chronicles 12:32
5. Prompt Obedience
-Genesis 22:2-3
6. Give cheerfully
   -2 Corinthian 9:7
7. Take it to the right place
  -Genesis 22:2
8. Fear of God
    -Genesis 22:12

PEOPLE WHO SACRIFICED IN THE BIBLE
*ABRAHAM
 -Genesis 22:1-3 (read the whole chapter at will)
 -Genesis 24:35
*WIDOWS
-1 kings 17
*NOAH
 -Genesis 8:20-22
*SOLOMON
 -1kings 3:3-5
 -1kings 3:13
 -2samuel 24:24-25
*DAVID
-1chronicles 9:25
*DAVID IBIYEOMIE

REQUIREMENT FOR CONSISTENT SACRIFICE
1 Revelation
2 Love for God
3 Expectation
- proverbs 24:14
4 Faith
-Hebrew 11:26
-James 1:25
*what ever you don't have today is what you have not given
* To remain on the fast lane of kingdom wealth, sacrifice must be a habit

HOW OFTEN DO WE NEED SACRIFICES
1. When we desire a change of level
2. When we want God to intervain and change financial captivity
3. When there is farming and economic melt down in the land
4. When there is sign of death
5. When there is a sign of premature death (ransom sacrifice )

UNACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE
1. Polluted sacrifice
 -Malachi 7:14
2. Offering something that does not belong to you
 -Exodus 35:5
3. Giving accursed things
4. Giving something you have alternative to and does not creat a vacuum in your life.
5. Anything you can easily replace immediately after the sacrifice by yourself

BENEFITS OF SACRIFICE
1. Revelation
- Genesis 22:13
2. Sacrifice brings your miracle to you
3. Sacrifice brings divine intervention
4. Generational blessing
5. God counts you faithful
6. It pleases aGod and ,makes him proud of you
7. Sacrifice makes God transfer wealth from the heathen to you.


N/B God is not a tax master, he'll never demand what he has not given you
John 13:17

MINISTER: PASTOR DAVID IBIYEOMIE (SALVATION MINISTRIES)